The Washington bee., 1887-02-26
Lincoln church, Monday night
A NEW PARTY.
THE TWO OLD PARTIES WEIGHED IN
THE BALANCE AND FOUND WANT
ING. THE EDITOR OF THE NEGRO
AMERICAN GIVES HIS VIEWS.


Birmingham, Ala, Feb, 22, '87.
Edit )r OF the BEE:
The action of the republican
Senate in rejecting Hon. James
@. Matthews nominated to be Re-
corder of Deeds, for no other rea-
son than because he Is a Negro
convinces me that the Negroes
hope for political recognition is
in a new party. 1t is an estab
lished fact that the democratic
party is not in love with the Ne
gro, nor has 1t ever professel TO
be. but the progress of civilization,
the advancement of knowledge
and the demands of society force
that party to recognize the Ne
gro. This right and need OF the
age however, is block. d by the
republican party, the supposed
party of equality and justice, and
the pretended friend of the Ne
gr,. If then the enemy can d /,
nothing, and the friend (?) will
do nothing, our assistance must
come from some neutral source.
Both the democratic and repub-
lican parties have by their | .ng
N inuance i'll p,we. AMI control
of national affairs bee me 30 cor
lupt III practice and SO Negligent
of the interests of the Pc. Pile as
to forfeit all claim upon publie
confidence and support, while
their usnrpatlon of p,wer, their
greed for spoils, their GRIN !lng
servlllty to combinations and
corporations of great w.alth
whose policy is the +, bbery OF the
masses; the hagrant disregard of
the known or exp es,ed will #
their constituencies; tn ir ap-
pointment of a bias and DEP lendent
Judiciary for partisan and pc sonaI
purposes; the r Class legislation;
their sqnandering of the pub ic
domain upon rich syn icates,
aliens and corporations. have
demonstrated their unworthiness,
and he necessity OF the r. ov r.
throw and expulsion from power
and authority. There is nothing
truer than the fact lhls p 'lltic Il
parties and public nffis,rs long
Invested with governmental pow
er, and with the administration
Of law are prone to abuse their
trust and priv leges and to use
tue power placed ill their hands
for selfish purposes. Both the
democratic and repub;. can parties
are cursed with the arrogance and
the dictat rship of machine
politics. Tnry advocate N prin>
ciple t'r they have none. and if a
party cannot agree as TO what
princip e it will advocate, it has
no valid reason to exist
When Samuel j. TIlden wrote
to Dorsheimer at the democratic
national c,'nv, n ion OF 1880 telling
him to Nuke the demoara ic plat
form as near the reDubli an as
possible, so as they would get as
much for The succ S. of one as the
other, he stated the principles of
DO h The Old parties in nut shell.
Their only aim All object is h'r
mony tor the s,ke OF. success anh
gain. Theref,re the nee s-ity To,
IA new party representing the III
terests of the people to b title fer
the right against organized and
legallzed wrong, and to c'rrec
the abuses long practiced 10y the
old parti,s is beginning to he
seen and realized. Whilst the
democratic party used the p' or
J white man 10 further their inter
ests, the republican Larry made
use of the Negro t. run up their
bank acc 'unt. The p 'llticaI alIi-
ance of the Negro, especially I"
his party has prov la curse a her
than blessing because he has failed
. | to comprehend the nature of Dar-